Am I being unreasonable to be concerned about toilet video trend in sons school class?

[Leah5678]

Hi guys first time poster and relatively young mum (im 22) so go easy on me if this sounds silly 🙂.
My son is in year 1 and a lot of the boys in his class are talking about "skibidi toilet" which is a series of videos on YouTube. I didn't want my son to be left out so I thought I'd check them out before letting him watch them so when his friends are talking about it he can join in.

The videos I found were so weird and concerning I didn't end up showing him them because I thought they weren't appropriate for a 5 year old, I'll post a link below. So I guess my question is am I unreasonable to think it's strange to let your year one child watch these videos bearing in mind it's about half the kids in his class watching it? Do you guys have a similar trend at your children's schools? Would you let your year 1 child watch skibidi toilet?
https://youtube.com/shorts/PEPnf8riCck?si=BrdXinHom_Q-sj_B

I wouldn't be comfortable with my child watching that. Maybe let the teacher know

I would mention it to school in a general raising concern way.

What's most disturbing is that there are 3.8 million people out there who feel that clip has enriched their lives enough to make it worth posting a 'like'. Humans are so odd. And no, of course it's not appropriate for 5 year olds.

WTF that was scary!!

That would have given my son nightmares. Completely inappropriate for such young children.

I'd inform the school... they will hopefully recap internet safety with the children and can share information with their parents about discussing online content with the children and signpost them to addition support. I suspect that not all of the parents will be aware that their children are watching the videos, which is just as concerning as the children watching itthe first place!

Any widespread concerns like this - rather than just one kid - I would mention to the school.

That is horrific for a child that age. Raise it with the school

I’m glad you posted this. My little boy, also yr 1, has also mentioned skibidi toilet. I had no idea what it was and hadn’t looked it up. He definitely hasn’t watched it at home as we don’t allow YouTube and he hasn’t had any play dates not supervised by me. But I’m going to bring it up now!

They will all be petrified to go to the toilet

My kid is obsessed with these videos but not in a good way... she was scared the 'skibidi toilet man' would come out of the loo and made me wait outside for a week or so. Now she just talks about it a lot.

It's a shame as the original skibidi videos of the belly dancing guy were really cool, our whole family loved them.

It reminds me of the Elsagate scandal a few years back, these toilet videos seem to be deliberately aimed at young children but are incredibly unsettling and it's like they have been designed to cause nightmares.

Anyway YANBU, these videos are horrible and i would mention it to your child's teacher x

This is why children should not be given access to smartphones / tablets. They will instinctively seek this sort of thing out.
I definitely would have done at that age. I remember almost sorts of creepy stuff from growing up in the early 90s!

That one isn’t appropriate. My 11DS has seen a different one that was just a head coming out of the loo singing that song. He finds it hilarious. So, I think there are different ones. Not sure any of them are ok for younger kids, though. I just know that the link you posted isn’t the one my DC watched, which wasn’t disturbing as such, just really daft, pointless and odd. Just what 11 year old boys like!

That's so disturbing

That’s really unpleasant to look at

Thanks for all the comments guys

I believe episode 1 is just a toilet with a head but as the series progresses the videos get more and more disturbing. I'm assuming the kids have probably seen more than just episode 1 because they talk about it so much but idk for sure

Wtaf did I just watch. My ds 4.5 would be scared shitless if he saw that.

That actually massively disturbed ME! I wouldn't let mine watch it at all.

YouTube shorts are pernicious. So many are watching them & parents don't realise it's basically a free pass to the whole horrible Internet with algorithms to make it most disturbing.

We had something similar with a clip that EVERYONE was watching that was homophobic and racist - it was designed to be silly to attract a young audience. I spoke to my twins about it as they were upset they couldn’t watch it and explained the problem. I also popped a message on the parent’s WhatsApp saying what I felt it portrayed & if they hadn’t watched it but their kids did maybe they should have a look.
It was actually a really good way in to speak about the issues.

Unfortunately this is the norm where I'm from to. That very video, and my two children play the song on Alexa too. We're in south east of England

It’s banned in my house , it’s really disturbing and I think it would give children nightmares ??